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The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has set out the conclusions of the Government’s Integrated Review of security, defence, development and foreign policy. The review, which has been conducted over the last year, is the most comprehensive foreign policy and national security approach published by a British Government since the end of ...


Official DPRTE 2021 event partner Airbus, alongside Fujitsu and Thales UK ,have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work collaboratively on the upcoming Systems Integrator (SI) opportunity for the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), Land Environment Tactical Communications and Information Systems programme – known as LE TacCIS. Following the signature ...


The Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, has traveled to Estonia and Norway for talks around the regional security threat posed by Russia and climate change in the run up to the COP26 climate conference. The visit to a cluster of like-minded Nordic and Baltic states, comes as the government prepares for the ...


Yet more big names have been confirmed to appear at Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability (DPRTE) 2020 taking place at Farnborough International Exhibition Centre on June 23rd. Airbus and Lockheed Martin will take their place at the DPRTE Supply Chain Engagement Zone​ alongside QinetiQ and BAE Systems. The Ministry of Defence manage over £20 billion of third-party procurement spend every year. ...


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